Self-printing camera

While I use a digital camera for work, I have not entiirely embraced digital in my personal life.

Why? Because the photos end up living on the camera and never making it to one of my two dozen-plus albums.

I’m thinking Polaroid’s PoGo Instant Digital Camera may be a good idea for me, and any of you who also never print your pics.

The camera is digital, complete with a nice sized screen on the back, and prints 2″ X 3″ pictures in less than 60 seconds. Oh, and the images have adhesive on the back, so you can slap them up on your office wall, fridge, wherever.

I dunno about the actual usefulness of this – For 200 bucks, you could get a low-cost camera and a cheapie printer and be able to print at sizes larger than a business card, without the need for specialized 3″x2″ (and thus, presumably more expensive than it needs to be) photo paper.

two words…rip off
Are we so lazy that we cant USB into the computer and click the pics into a software program like RoadRunner offers? or as was mentioned Snapfish… even better is Picasa, you can configure the shots anyway you like then organinze them into online folders. Nobody lugs around photo albums anymore, that went away like 8 track cassettes.
My Ipod can manage an entire lifetime of photos to share at a moments notice in a slideshow with music without digging through a clost for those plastic lined nerdy photo albums. Nothing says goofy louder than a fridge plastered with pics nobody looks at anyway.

Kristi,
The POGO is actually a small mobile photo printer that can print your 2×3 pictures from any digital camera.
It runs about $99 at your local retailer (the Blue Shirt guys at Crossgates Mall) and a 30-pack of 2×3 paper is 13.99.
Glad to help.

I’m wondering if this camera would be good for older generation folks who don’t have (and have no aspirations to have) a PC? My dad is in his 70’s and refuses to join the masses with e-mail, computers, etc. This PoGo may be an interesting idea for him, as he could point-and-shoot, print on the fly, then snail-mail photos to us.